East Riding of Yorkshire Council EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE Local Flood Risk Management Strategy STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report LOCAL FLOOD RISK 2015 MANAGEMENT STRATEGY SCOPING REPORT "Reducing flood risk, sustaining communities, enabling growth" EAST RIDING OF YORKS HIRE STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT LOCAL FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY SCOPING REPORT ©2015. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council CONTENTS Section 1: Introduction and Context................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Background .............................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2. Local Flood Risk Management Strategies ......................................................................................... 1 1.3. Requirement for Strategic Environmental Assessment ................................................................ 3 1.4. The SEA Process .................................................................................................................................... 4 1.5. The Purpose of this Report ................................................................................................................. 5 1.6. Spatial and Temporal Scope of the SEA ........................................................................................... 5 1.7. Consultation ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Section 2 Other Relevant Policies, Plans, and Programmes .......................................................................... 9 2.1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 9 2.2. Relevant documents .............................................................................................................................. 9 Section 3: Baseline Information........................................................................................................................... 15 3.1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 15 3.2. Population and Human Health .......................................................................................................... 15 3.3. Biodiversity, Fauna and Flora ............................................................................................................ 17 3.4. Geology and Soil .................................................................................................................................. 20 3.5. Water ..................................................................................................................................................... 24 3.6. Flood Risk .............................................................................................................................................. 29 3.7. Air ............................................................................................................................................................ 31 3.8. Climatic Factors ................................................................................................................................... 31 3.9. Local Economy...................................................................................................................................... 33 3.10. Transport ............................................................................................................................................... 35 3.11. Housing................................................................................................................................................... 36 3.12. Community Facilities ........................................................................................................................... 39 3.13. Utility infrastructure ............................................................................................................................ 41 3.14. Minerals .................................................................................................................................................. 42 3.15. Waste Management ............................................................................................................................. 43 3.16. Cultural Heritage ................................................................................................................................. 44 3.17. Landscape ............................................................................................................................................... 46 Section 4: Environmental Issues and Problems ............................................................................................... 49 4.1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 49 Section 5: Strategic Environmental Assessment Objectives and Framework .......................................... 53 5.1. Development of the SEA Objectives and Framework ................................................................ 53 Section 6: Proposed Approach to the SEA ...................................................................................................... 57 6.1. Assessment methodology .................................................................................................................. 57 6.2. Presentation .......................................................................................................................................... 58 6.3. Proposed Structure of the SEA Environmental Report .............................................................. 60 Section 7: Glossary ................................................................................................................................................ 61 Section 8: References ............................................................................................................................................ 67 TABLES AND FIGURES Location Map: East Riding .................................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 1.1 - Summary of the LFRMS and SEA process .................................................................................... 5 Figure 1.2 - East Riding of Yorkshire - Strategic Location.............................................................................. 7 Figure 1.3 Hydraulic catchments within the East Riding ................................................................................. 7 Table 2.1 - List of relevant policies, plans and programmes ........................................................................ 10 Figure 3.1 - Biodiversity Priority Areas (Source: East Riding Local Plan - Proposed Submission Strategy Document 2014) .................................................................................................................................... 19 Figure 3.2 - Green Infrastructure Corridors (Source: East Riding Local Plan - Proposed Submission Strategy Document 2014) .................................................................................................................................... 20 Figure 3.3 - The Geology of the East Riding (Source: East Yorkshire RIGs Group website - http://www.hullgeolsoc.org.uk/eyrg/map.htm) ................................................................................................ 21 Figure 3.4 - Agricultural land classifications in the East Riding .................................................................... 23 Table 3.1: Bathing Water Assessment Ratings 2013. Source: Environment Agency Website ............ 26 Table 3.2 - Availability of water for abstraction in the East Riding ............................................................. 27 Figure 3.7 - Combined Flood Risk (Source: East Riding Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment, 2011) 29 Figure 3.8 - Drainage network (Source: East Riding Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment, 2011) ....... 30 Table 3.3: The spatial distribution of new housing between 2012 and 2029 ........................................... 38 Table 4.1 - Identification of environmental issues and problems................................................................ 49 Table 5.1 - Proposed SEA Objectives ............................................................................................................... 53 Table 6.1 - Example of Assessment ................................................................................................................... 58 Table 6.2 - Example of Assessment Summary ................................................................................................. 59 Table 6.3 Proposed Structure of SEA Environmental Report ..................................................................... 60 APPENDICES Appendix A: Review of Other Relevant Policies, Plans and Programmes Appendix B: International, National and Locally Designated Sites of Importance for Biodiversity